Cara Sklar
Director, Early & Elementary Education
- Virtual
- 1PM – 2:30PM EDT
Across the country, states and local communities are doing remarkable work to strengthen early education systems—finding creative, practical solutions to longstanding challenges related to funding and the workforce. But what does that work actually look like from the inside? What does it require, what gets in the way, and what do leaders wish they had known going in?
Join Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ and the Zaentz Early Education Initiative at Harvard Graduate School of Education to mark the completion of the Insights to Action series—five briefs surfacing promising strategies from leaders across the country. Practitioners and leaders featured in the briefs, along with additional voices from the field, will join us for an in-depth conversation about building and sustaining early childhood funding strategies and workforce supports, sharing hard-won lessons from the ground.
This event is for anyone working to strengthen early education systems—whether you are just starting out or deep in the work.
Speakers
Emily Wiklund Hayhurst
Assistant Director, Learning Design and Communications, Saul Zaentz Early Education Initiative
Jennifer Headley-Nordman
President, First Steps Kent, Kent County, Michigan
Larrisa Wilkinson
Deputy CEO (former), PreK 4 SA, San Antonio, Texas
Ryan Page
Director of Child Care and Co-CCDF Administrator, Division of Family Well-Being and Protection, Iowa Department of Health and Human Services
Susan Jeong
Workforce Initiatives Manager, San Francisco Department of Early Childhood
Lupe Jaime-Mileham
EdD, Deputy Director, Child Care and Development Division, California Department of Social Services
Maria Ceballos Tapia
Executive Officer for Early Learning, Fresno Unified School District
Page Tomblin
Co-Director, Oakland Starting Smart and Strong